Looks like the Van Halen tour is off....

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  • nowayimfaithfull
    nowayimfaithfull Posts: 2,051
    aNiMaL wrote:
    And on the VH subject.....like we didn't see this coming!

    Sad, but I didn't expect this to happen. Too damn bad that Eddie has such a grudge towards his lifelong bass player for being friends with Sammy. Because it still wouldn't have been the real deal without Michael Anthony.

    Van Halen should accept the fact that they are retired and no more. They should all put their differences aside (all of them; Eddie, Alex, Michael, David, and Sammy)....and they should all show up and gracefully accept their induction and maybe play one or two songs. Then go home and enjoy retired life.


    I started to sit down and read rolling stone, and the vh article was insane, in this months mag obviously written 3 weeks ago

    well we are considering taking dave back but eds son wolfgang is our new bassplayer mike decided to leave and be in the other ones, and
    ed quote unquote

    you cannot be in 2 bands

    what a freak

    talk about wasted time

    he fucked up a great band
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  • edwho
    edwho Posts: 811
    Eddie Van Halen called into Howard Stern last September.

    I found this quote in Rolling Stone “Michael Sobolewski [Michael Anthony’s real last name] is out touring with ‘the little red rocker’ … I mean the little red worm. I got no problem with these guys, but they’re billing themselves as the other half of Van Halen. My brother is the other half of Van Halen. They’re out there selling hot sauce and tequila and playing all my songs. It doesn’t bother me. It just makes them a cover band.” This was right before the Michael Anthony dismissal.

    This is a good site for Van Halen news: vhnd.com

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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,928
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    I'll admit to hearing only a few selected tracks and that was nearly 9 years ago. Was the Cherone era that bad?

    PBM
    In actuality, its not such a bad album. (side note, I have my CD jacket autographed by Gary, he and Eddie did an acoustic thing at the Hard Rock Cafe in Boston prior to playing the FleetCenter on the VH3 tour, EVH autographed my copy of Rollingstone from that year with him on the cover).
    It has a few very good songs, a few OK songs, and one total piece of crap ("How Many Say I"), which EVH handles the "vocal" on.

    If it had come out without any expectations, it might have been better received, but the press (and a lot of fans) were just waiting to pan the project.

    And Gary did an excellent job fronting the band in concert, frankly he is the best singer of the 3, but fans just wouldn't accept him.
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  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    Poncier wrote:
    And Gary did an excellent job fronting the band in concert, frankly he is the best singer of the 3, but fans just wouldn't accept him.

    It's one thing to follow Roth (which, surprisingly, Sammy pulled off), but it's nearly impossible to follow both.

    I guess he was dead before he even got in the water.

    PBM
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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,928
    PissBottleMan wrote:

    I guess he was dead before he even got in the water.

    PBM
    Pretty much.

    So how's the baby?
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  • stonesgstring
    stonesgstring Posts: 4,613
    cutback wrote:
    EVH is out of his tree. Van Halen is done forever.

    "Up here in my tree....." EVH sings to himself ;):D

    From that photo though DLR looks like he's aged A LOT :eek:
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  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003549557

    A prospective Van Halen tour with original frontman David Lee Roth has derailed. Sources tell Billboard.com the decision to postpone the outing indefinitely was not due to any internal strife among band members. Insiders close to the situation say a tour is still in the works and will happen, though when is anybody's guess.

    The tour, negotiations for which were first tipped here on Jan. 24, will feature Roth, Eddie and Alex Van Halen, and Eddie Van Halen's teenage son Wolfgang on bass. A spokesperson for the Van Halen brothers confirmed the tour in a Feb. 3 press release.

    Indeed, wheels were in motion for a 40-date, Live Nation-produced amphitheatre tour to be announced Feb. 20, including venues and on-sale dates.

    The Van Halen camp has yet to make any official announcement about the postponement or the reasons behind it.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • olderman
    olderman Posts: 1,765
    might as well...

    JUMP! Go ahead and JUMP!
    Down the street you can hear her scream youre a disgrace
    As she slams the door in his drunken face
    And now he stands outside
    And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
    He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
    What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
    Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
    And his tears fall and burn the garden green
  • brain of c
    brain of c Posts: 5,213
    s_rockvam wrote:
    actually, they are the SECOND biggest punchline right behind the new GnR and Chinese Democracy... but not surprised one bit.


    bingo.
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,048
    I predict the tour will happen..
    Alex and Eddie, David (and all the people they support) reallly need the money..

    Promoters are seeing easy $$$..

    But no doubt the tour will be a bust at some point mid-way through
    (aka Eddie will collapse on stage)..

    so those of you who get some of the earlier dates, get your boot-legs on!

    Its gonna get real ugly real fast

    (picture Jimmy Page touring with "The Firm", so messed up he had to play while seated on a folding chair)..
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    locked wrote:

    But no doubt the tour will be a bust at some point mid-way through
    (aka Eddie will collapse on stage)..

    so those of you who get some of the earlier dates, get your boot-legs on!

    Its gonna get real ugly real fast
    My money was on a fist fight on stage between Eddie and Dave..........:D
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  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    ...and now, according to DLR, the VH brothers may not attend the HOF ceremonies.

    http://www.therockradio.com/2007/02/van-halen-brothers-might-not-attend.html

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    ...and now, according to DLR, the VH brothers may not attend the HOF ceremonies.

    http://www.therockradio.com/2007/02/van-halen-brothers-might-not-attend.html

    PBM
    "....the chaos surrounding guitar hero Eddie Van Halen," "somewhere between Axel Rose and Michael Jackson."........LMAO....that's some great writing.

    What a bunch of babies.....threatening to skip the HOF ceremony. LMAO
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  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,048
    that's right Eddie..

    stay mad at the world...

    (WTF???)
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  • Yellow Bedwetter
    Yellow Bedwetter NYC Posts: 2,832
    The Darkness wrote:
    At least according to Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/02/21/the-official-word-van-halen-tour-kaput/

    This wouldn't surprise me in the least. For the past 10 years, this band has been the biggest punchline in the rock music world.

    this thread is a hoax...on page 16 of the most recent Rolling Stone, with the same pic, the article says nothing about strippers from Albequerque nor anything about the tour not happening...that link was made up/edited by someone who doesnt want VH to tour
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  • nowayimfaithfull
    nowayimfaithfull Posts: 2,051
    all i Know is they are the most fucked up band in rock
    Some people have religion I have Pearl Jam.


    no more shows
  • imspinnin
    imspinnin Posts: 933
    locked wrote:
    I predict the tour will happen..
    Alex and Eddie, David (and all the people they support) reallly need the money..

    Promoters are seeing easy $$$..

    But no doubt the tour will be a bust at some point mid-way through
    (aka Eddie will collapse on stage)..

    so those of you who get some of the earlier dates, get your boot-legs on!

    Its gonna get real ugly real fast

    (picture Jimmy Page touring with "The Firm", so messed up he had to play while seated on a folding chair)..
    Sounds like some more Guns n' Roses bullshit:rolleyes:
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  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    imspinnin wrote:
    Sounds like some more Guns n' Roses bullshit:rolleyes:

    ...but really it's smart marketing. The GNR brand name continues to be talked about, whether it's positive or negative. There's no such thing as bad PR, right?

    Same thing with Van Halen...these little feuds and in-fighting keep the drama going. In return, the audience stands at attention.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • NickyNooch
    NickyNooch Posts: 629
    This wouldn't surprise me at all if the tour got canned. My bet was always they start the tour and end it half way through because DLR says something cocky to Wolfgang and Eddie gets so ticked that he calls off the tour.

    However, by these interviews, it seems like DLR is acting very mature about what all is going on.

    Of course, even if he didn't I'd still take DLR's side :)

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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    NickyNooch wrote:
    This wouldn't surprise me at all if the tour got canned. My bet was always they start the tour and end it half way through because DLR says something cocky to Wolfgang and Eddie gets so ticked that he calls off the tour.

    However, by these interviews, it seems like DLR is acting very mature about what all is going on.

    Of course, even if he didn't I'd still take DLR's side :)
    Maybe DLR needs the money more than the other guys?
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